DJ Jim "The Music Professor" LaBarbara spent four decades playing music for Cincinnati fans and sometimes hobnobbing with the musicians.

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For years, DJ Jim "Music Professor" LaBarbara filled airwaves with stories about the great rock 'n' roll stars.

Now he's filled a book.

His encounters with Ray Charles, Neil Diamond, James Brown, John Denver, the Beach Boys, Monkees, Animals and other rockers are woven through "Jim LaBarbara, The Music Professor: A Life Amplified Through Radio & Rock 'n' Roll" ($28; Little Miami Publishing). ...